Posts Tagged ‘Navigation’
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The Case Against Vertical Navigation
- January 11th, 2010
- 160 Comments
In a recent article about unusable and superficial beer and alcohol websites, I made the claim that using left-hand vertical navigation is an out-of-date method in modern web design. In the comments, a few people wondered why I said this. I was surprised that it got any attention at all, ...
Read more...Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends
- January 4th, 2010
- 94 Comments
The navigation menu is perhaps a website’s single most important component. Navigation gives you a window onto the website designer’s creative ability to produce a functional yet visually impressive element that’s fundamental to most websites. Because of their value to websites, navigation menus are customarily placed in the most visible ...
Read more...Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns And Best Practices
- September 7th, 2009
- 64 Comments
The horizontal navigation menu has become a mainstay in Web design. It is safe to say that nowadays most websites use some form of horizontal navigation to facilitate content browsing. The dominance of horizontal navigation over vertical (i.e. down a sidebar) is obviously due to the design and content limitations ...
Read more...Module Tabs in Web Design: Best Practices and Solutions
- June 24th, 2009
- 38 Comments
A module tab is a design pattern where content is separated into different panes, and each pane is viewable one at a time. The user requests content to be displayed by clicking (or in some instances hovering over) the content’s corresponding tab control. Module tabs are seeing an ...
Read more...Showcase Of Well-Designed Tabbed Navigation
- April 6th, 2009
- 65 Comments
There are an extensive amount of roads you can take in web design, specifically in navigation. Here, we will talk about one specific navigation technique, tab-based navigation. If properly carried out, tabbed navigation can be very clean and organized within a web layout. So what is tabbed navigation? Well, it is ...
Read more...Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
- March 24th, 2009
- 139 Comments
As a general rule, most Web developers, especially usability enthusiasts, say it is bad practice to use drop-down menus because they are confusing, annoying and oftentimes dysfunctional. From a design standpoint, however, drop-down menus are an excellent feature because they help clean up a busy layout. If structured correctly, drop-down ...
Read more...50 Beautiful And User-Friendly Navigation Menus
- February 4th, 2009
- 108 Comments
Usability is an essential goal of any website, and usable navigation is something every website needs. It determines where users are led and how they interact with the website. Without usable navigation, content becomes all but useless. Menus need to be simple enough for the user to understand, but also ...
Read more...Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas
- April 8th, 2008
- 112 Comments
According to classic principles of web design, everything at the bottom of the page isn’t that important. Most users think like that. And most designers are convinced that this is true. Site elements at the bottom of the page aren’t really able to catch visitors’ attention which is why footers ...
Read more...Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples
- February 26th, 2008
- 164 Comments
Navigation is the most significant element in web design. Since web-layouts don’t have any physical representation a user can stick to, consistent navigation menu is one of the few design elements which provide users with some sense of orientation and guide them through the site. Users should be able to ...
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